How to get an IT Job - Europe, USA, but not limited...

 

Digest how to get an IT Job in USA, Europe.

We're covering QA, DevOps positions.

To get a job with work authorization will be way easier

RATES

QA rates in USA:
- Manual Testing - $30 - $50/h gross
- Automation Testing - $50 - $85/h gross

DevOps rates in USA:
- DevOps - $50 - $80/h gross
- Sr. DevOps - $80 - $110/h gross

*August 2022

Rates in Europe are usually twice less

RESUME

First of all you'll need a great resume, so they to be hunting you, not you searching and applying for available positions.
Here're are templates:
- QA Template
- DevOps Template 

LinkedIn

- LinkedIn - LifeHacks:

• You need good headline, such as: "DevOps, SRE, Cloud: AWS, AZ, GCP, CI/CD, IaaC, GitLab, Terraform, DataDog, ElasticStack, Bash, Python, PowerShell"
• Copy all information from CV to LinkedIN, Add good "official" photo to profile.
• Add Interests like "Terraform" "Devops" "GitLab" etc..
• Open "Search" - > put 'it recruiter'  -> Press Enter - > Choose category "People" - > Press "Locations" and put there country (example: Germany, United Kingdom, Serbia, Malta, Cyprus etc.). Start "Connect" IT recruiters up to limit. You need 500+ persons, add not only recruiters.

- Job Websites in Europe

LinkedIn,  relocate.me, indeed.com

- Job Websites in USA

- Job Websites in former soviet union countries

hh.ru, HABR Карьера

- Online Europe/USA banks (just links)
revolut  n26  wise

Introduce Yourself: (intro example)

• In IT industry I’m for 11+ years, SRE, Automation.
• I’ve worked on clouds like Amazon, Google, Azure
• Designed, planned, implemented migration from on-premises to Cloud.
• I implemented infrastructure as code in my last 3 projects: used Terraform, Terraform Enterprise, Scalr.io (developed code from scratched, developed modules, imported resources, troubleshooting, upgrades)
• On CICD part I worked with Jenkins (pipelines Groovy), Gitlab, GithubActions, with pipeline as code approach.
• On Microservices: worked with Docker, Docker Compose (build images, optimize images, troubleshooting, multistage Dockerfiles)
• Also worked with Kubernetes: provision, setup, troubleshooting, auto-scaling. Provisioned: ECS, EKS, Apprunner in AWS, GKE in Google AKS in Azure
• On observability part: I setup such tools as Datadog (Monitors, Alers, Synthetic Checks, Application Performance Monitoring), OpenSearch (logging), Grafana with Prometheus, have experience with SPLUNK, New Relic
• Besides that I have 15 years in Python scripting and development - it’s my universal tool to implement any automation needed (developed automation tests, API integrations, integrations with Slack, Teams, CICD, Monitoring, ETL, Data Processing)
• In addition I’ve got very good experience with Cloud Cost optimization.

That’s it briefly.